Political Views

[rootbear75]

Curious to where you guys stand on the political spectrum.

[CRe]

Mid-Left

[»Lynx]

Left.

[Dav]

Left

[Sketter]

Left

[Aceflyer]

Moderate leaning slightly left. Edited November 17, 2008 by Aceflyer

[Aileron]

Mid-Right

[Lera]

mid-right

[FMBI]

Far left with an infinitely skeptical and pragmatic streak.

[»freakmonger]

Mid-Right

[NBVegita]

Moderate

[SeVeR]

mid left.

 

Hi NBFenceSitter!

[Bak]

Hi NBFenceSitter!

lool

 

Left.

 

One more moderate and we have a nice monotonically decreasing distribution

[SamHughes]

None of the above.

[rootbear75]

None of the above.

then you are moderate.. neither left nor right

[SeVeR]

Maybe he has some left views and some right views that somehow mix into a unique position.... but then you'd still be moderate or the average of your views. I wouldn't mind an explanation.

[»Purge]

I'm so left you can call me socialist.

[Tigron-X]

None of the above.

then you are moderate.. neither left nor right

 

 

How presumptuous of you to assume that this spectrum of liberal to moderate to conservative actually encompasses all perspectives of political philosophies or ideals of governance. Not to mention that moderate would actually be a conglomerate of left and right, not an absence of the two as you imply.

[FMBI]

None of the above.

then you are moderate.. neither left nor right

 

 

How presumptuous of you to assume that this spectrum of liberal to moderate to conservative actually encompasses all perspectives of political philosophies or ideals of governance. Not to mention that moderate would actually be a conglomerate of left and right, not an absence of the two as you imply.

 

*Slaps head*

 

Don't tell me.. you took the WSPQ, didn't you? And you found out that ordinary political quizzes don't really tell you everything about yourself (ie, that every single person in the world is a libertarian)?

 

By the way, moderate doesn't mean "a conglomerate of left and right", it means "moderate." Centrist is the word you're looking for.

[Tigron-X]

*Slaps head*

 

Don't tell me.. you took the WSPQ, didn't you? And you found out that ordinary political quizzes don't really tell you everything about yourself (ie, that every single person in the world is a libertarian)?

 

Are you speaking from experience?

 

And, does that mean extraordinary political quizzes would really tell me everything about myself?

 

Honestly though, if I'm seeking to know who I am, and I result to political quizes for my answer, whether they be ordinary or extraordinary, then I am damned from the start.

 

By the way, moderate doesn't mean "a conglomerate of left and right", it means "moderate." Centrist is the word you're looking for.

 

 

Moderate means moderate? How profound.

 

Centrist is moderate. Moderate is a relative term.

 

And I refuse to engage into a semantical argument regarding 'conglomerate' when the point was that 'moderate' is not the absence of left wing, right wing ideals. A "moderate" tends to (or it's not uncommon for a moderate to) share ideals with both sides, very rarely going into the extremes of either side, but still remaining within a particular body of politics.

 

The overall point I was making in my previous post was that it is asinine to assume that everyone defaults into the body of politics you have contracted into by your own accord.

[FMBI]

Are you speaking from experience?

 

And, does that mean extraordinary political quizzes would really tell me everything about myself?

 

Honestly though, if I'm seeking to know who I am, and I result to political quizes for my answer, whether they be ordinary or extraordinary, then I am damned from the start.

 

[ ..My quote.. ]

 

Moderate means moderate? How profound.

 

Centrist is moderate. Moderate is a relative term.

 

And I refuse to engage into a semantical argument regarding 'conglomerate' when the point was that 'moderate' is not the absence of left wing, right wing ideals. A "moderate" tends to (or it's not uncommon for a moderate to) share ideals with both sides, very rarely going into the extremes of either side, but still remaining within a particular body of politics.

 

The overall point I was making in my previous post was that it is asinine to assume that everyone defaults into the body of politics you have contracted into by your own accord.

 

First of all, I'll repost my post.

 

*Slaps head*

 

Don't tell me.. you took the WSPQ, didn't you? And you found out that ordinary political quizzes don't really tell you everything about yourself (ie, that every single person in the world is a libertarian)?

 

By the way, moderate doesn't mean "a conglomerate of left and right", it means "moderate." Centrist is the word you're looking for.

 

My point with the political quiz jab was that the WSPQ test (which you apparently have not heard of, somewhat deadening the impact of my figurative blow) says virtually the same thing you did in your first post. Therefore, my statement was intended as somewhere between a joke and a serious comment.

 

 

Also, you're splitting the wrong hairs on the the second half of my post. My intended statement was that centrist and moderate mean two different things - moderate being the "open to anything" person who may or may not end up having some left- and some right-wing positions, centrist being the person who will have some relatively balanced amount of the two and who will, often reflexively, stick to the center of the political spectrum on whatever issue is being discussed.

 

As for the "conglomerate" question, I never had any intent of pointing it out.

 

 

 

Also, just my personal opinion, but it seems to me that many people who point out the problems with self-identification miss the point. The people who state their personal viewpoint are, generally, already aware of the problems inherent in such an undertaking, but they (here I extrapolate from myself and other people I've talked to) feel it is worth it so that others know where they're coming from, so as to facilitate the discussion of deeper arguments - often this is the only way to get to the "heart of the matter," if one or more of the parties is mostly focusing on talking points in a given discussion.

Edited February 11, 2009 by Finland My BorgInvasion

[Tigron-X]

With all due respect Fin, I'm sure it's safe for me to assume that the reasons I made my comment are far different than the reasons behind the comments of that quiz.

 

Whatever you're saying in your personal opinion is so broad from where I stand that I can only guess as to what you just said. And I assume you're saying that the members of the society you are an associate of claim left or right, for example, to jump right into political debate. Something along those lines.

 

My problem, however, is the assumption that everyone is automatically a member if this society, thus automatically falls into one of those catagories.